Billy Dosanjh works in film, photography, sculpture, and print. The work is set in and about the Black Country, the de-industrialised factory towns of the West Midlands, the ground his father came to from the Punjab in 1967. Major projects include the photography series The Exiles (2019–2023), the residency body Endz of the World (2020), the archival documentary Year Zero: Black Country (2012), and the current Heritage Lottery Fund commission Paths You Walk (The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2026).
Trained at the National Film and Television School, Dosanjh's work is held in twenty-four national public collections, including the Arts Council Collection, Kettle's Yard, and the Contemporary Art Society. He was nominated to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and twice nominated for the Derek Jarman Award. He is the founder of Reimagining Industrial Migratory Stories CIC.
It's personal, it's political but it's also planetary. It goes back to the 1960s, but also thinks about deep time and thinks geologically. There's an ambition to that.
Ekow Eshun, UAL 20/20, 2025By firmly planting his artistic project in the working class, post-industrial, communities of South Asian heritage in the Black Country, Dosanjh has taken on the task of creating a new form of 'settler art'.
Hammad Nasar, New Art Exchange, 2023Dosanjh's work occupies a fascinating territory that is informed by Euro-American art theory, but resolutely remains 'from the culture [of the region]', revealing a new language and perspective.
Melanie Kidd, New Art Exchange, 2022